Analysis of Dearest, dearest
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Dearest, dearest,
Bother the slow hours
That hold and keep me
From the leafy bowers
You make more lovely than a storm of flowers.
Dearest, dearest,
If they let me go
I'd hasten to you
Where the waters flow
In among the shadows and the dreams we know.
| Scheme | AbcbbAdedd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1010 100110 11011 101010 11110101110 1010 11111 11011 10101 0010100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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